SS Fultala was a British India Steam Navigation Company (BI) steamship.

[2] In 1890 William Doxford & Sons at Pallion in Sunderland built a pair of sister ships for BI.

Yard number 199 was laid down on 12 May 1890, launched on 17 August as Fazilka, and delivered on 11 October.

[8] On 19 January 1900 Fultala left Bombay (now Mumbai) carrying 280 horses supplied by Indian princes,[9] and 103 personnel to look after them: a captain of the 6th Bengal Lancers, a lieutenant of the 5th Bengal Lancers, a veterinary assistant, 25 Indian soldiers, and 74 syces (grooms).

[11] In 1901 Fultala took troops to Kismayo in Jubaland, which at that time was part of Britain's Kenya Colony.

[4] From 1901 to 1906 she made four voyages taking Indian indentured labourers to Fiji, as shown in the table below.